Carroll Dunham

Carroll Dunham is known for his colorful, symbolistic paintings of nude bathers, often rendered cartoonish and crude. This print recalls how, over a long career, he has created a highly specific visual language, instantly recognizable as a Dunham fantasia. He began in the 1970s with painting primitive, abstract, biomorphic forms that eventually evolved into namable, concrete objects: man, woman, flower, tree. There’s a great privilege in seeing an artist’s original explorations and underlying formal obsessions; this 1988 print holds the secret swell of Dunham’s later themes and enriches the experience of viewing his mature work to come.

made inUSA, 1989-89

materialaquatint and drypoint on paper

size41 h × 60 ¾ w in

descriptionSheet measures: 49.75 h x 69 w inches Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ’Carroll Dunham 1988-89 31/53’. This work is number 31 from the edition of 53.